2 h. ago Robbie Williams: Britpop review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Columbia)Framed as the music Williams wanted to make post-Take That, Britpop surpasses pastiche and swerves unpredictably. Homoerotic paean to Morrissey, anyone?The arrival of Robbie Williams’s 13th album has been a complicated business. It was announced in May 2025 and was supposed to come out in October, when its title would have chimed with the 90s nostalgia sparked by the Oasis reunion. Williams spent the summer engaging in promotion, unveiling fake Britpop-themed blue plaques around London and staging a press conference at the Groucho Club. There was a launch gig at storied Camden venue Dingwalls, at which he performed not just his new album in full, but his 1997 solo debut Life Thru a Lens.It was a bold choice, given that Life Thru a Lens initially threatened to derail his solo career: at the time, the now nakedly obvious supernova hits Angels and Let Me Entertain You were overlooked while people criticised Williams’s muddled attempts to fit in with, well, Britpop. On stage a...

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2 h. ago Robbie Williams' Britpop review: Why has he made this? And how is it actually great?

Robbie Williams attempts to record the record he should have made after Take That split up, which is so wrong an exercise that it feels right

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14 h. ago Inside Robbie Williams' luxurious property portfolio — from Holland Park to the Bahamas

From his new Bahamas pad to his listed Holland Park mansion, here’s where Robbie Williams calls home

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36 h. ago Robbie Williams 'moves to Bahamas' a decade after buying £17.5m west London mansion

The singer, 51, recently spent time living in Switzerland due to his ‘neurotic’ tendencies

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49 h. ago Robbie Williams 'moves to the Bahamas as he expands £100m property empire'

The singer, 51, is said to have expanded his property portfolio to over £100million with his latest purchase after he and wife Ayda Field flipped homes for the last three years.

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56 h. ago Robbie Williams moves to Caribbean island paradise after banking HUGE sum buying & selling property

SINGER Robbie Williams has moved to the Bahamas after becoming a property tycoon. The 51-year-old has bought an eight-figure luxury pad in the archipelago, near Florida. It takes the property empire of Robbie and wife Ayda, 46, to more than £100million after they flipped homes over the past three years. And the couple and have told pals they intend...

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3 d. ago Robbie Williams believes he will 'ride again' with Take That as he gives update on 2026 reunion tour

The musician opened up on new music, being a popstar and musician and the possibility of reuniting with Take That

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3 d. ago Robbie Williams says he will ‘ride again’ with Take That and reveals new albums

Britpop, his first album since 2019, is due to be released next month.

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5 d. ago Robbie Williams shares emotional text his teenage daughter Teddy sent to him at 2am

The pop star shared the heartbreaking messages on BBC Radio 2

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5 d. ago Robbie Williams reveals 'desperate' daughter sent him heartbreaking text over 'biggest fear'

Robbie Williams revealed that his 13 year old daughter Teddy is so 'desperate' to become famous she sent him a text in the early hours of the morning asking what she will do if she is not a singer

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6 d. ago Robbie Williams reveals heartbreaking text his actress daughter Teddy, 13, sent to him at 2am as he admits she's 'desperate' to be famous and reveals fears over her 'oversensitive' nature

Robbie Williams has revealed the heartbreaking text message his actress daughter Teddy sent him at 2am, admitting she fears she will be 'nothing' if she doesn't become a singer.

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6 d. ago Robbie Williams shares heartbreaking text from daughter, 13, as she fears future

Robbie Williams has shared the heartbreaking 2am text he received from his 13 year old daughter as she opened up about her fears for the future, admitting she is 'desperate' to be famous

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6 d. ago Robbie Williams fears his daughter Teddy is too much like him

Robbie Williams says his aspiring daughter Teddy is "desperate" for fame but fears she has inherited his over sensitivity. "I’m just worried about words, and mean people," he says. However he was inspired by a recent visit from his dad who has Parkinson's: "I will take that with me for the rest of my life."

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6 d. ago Robbie Williams says daughter Teddy is ‘so desperate’ to follow in his footsteps

Williams said his eldest daughter wants to be a singer.

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7 d. ago The Cribs: Selling a Vibe review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week

(PIAS)The Jarman brothers’ ninth album adds a little 80s pop sheen to their distorted guitars and confident songwriting, while always sounding exactly like the indie stalwartsLast summer, the BBC broadcast an eight-part podcast called The Rise and Fall of Indie Sleaze. Its third episode heavily featured the Cribs’ bassist and vocalist Gary Jarman talking about his band’s first flush of mid-00s fame. It centred on their 2005 single Hey Scenesters!, from which the episode also took its name. It was a curious choice: on close examination, Hey Scenesters! wasn’t a celebration of what some people unfortunately dubbed the New Rock Revolution so much as the sound of Jarman and his bandmate brothers poking fun at it.There was the peculiar dichotomy of the Cribs in a nutshell. They were a band so of the mid-00s moment that they were nearly signed to a record label founded by Myspace. But they always seemed slightly apart from the scene. They were certainly less voracious in the pursuit of ma...

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1 week ago Phil Taylor spent his money on 30 houses and revealed renting bungalow to Robbie Williams's dad

Phil Taylor ploughed much of his wealth into property while paying himself a tiny wage during his darts career

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1 week ago Phil Taylor's property empire from owning 30 houses to renting bungalow to Robbie Williams's dad

Phil Taylor poured his wealth into property while paying himself a modest wage during the height of his darts career

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2 w. ago Dry Cleaning: Secret Love review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(4AD)The standout act in the sprechgesang wave, the four-piece’s newly expansive sound carries singer Florence Shaw’s distinctive tales of mundane lives spiralling out of controlDry Cleaning’s third album features a lot of strikingly odd lyrics. Take your pick from “alien offshoot mushroom, going the gym to get slim”; “my dream house is a negative space of rock”; or, indeed, “when I was a child I wanted to be a horse, eating onions, carrots, celery”. But it’s an ostensibly more straightforward line, from Cruise Ship Designer, that seems destined to attract the most attention. “I make sure there are hidden messages in my work,” says vocalist Florence Shaw as the track draws to a conclusion, the muscular guitar riff that’s driven it along devolving into a janky, trebly scrabble.Initially, the lyric appears to characterise what Dry Cleaning do, and Shaw in particular. From the moment they first appeared with the 2018 EP Sweet Princess, the south London quartet have attracted adjectives...

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2 w. ago Did they really just say that? The most candid celebrity culture quotes of 2025

From politics to personal revelations, here are the most revealing things our culture writers were told this year

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2 w. ago Paul Gascoigne reveals how Hollywood icon George Clooney challenged him to a game of pool

Paul Gascoigne spoke with the Hollywood A-lister George Clooney through a mutual friends, who challenged him to a pool game. In the past, Gazza has spoken of his encounters with Dustin Hoffman, Robbie Williams, Princess Diana and Mike Tyson.

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